Monica Huggett (born May 16, 1953 in London, England) is a British conductor and leading baroque violinist.

At the age of 16 she started studying at the Royal Academy of Music, London with Manoug Parikian and Kato Havas, baroque violin with Sigiswald Kuijken.

She co-founded and served as leader of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman from 1980 to 1987. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 1994, and serves as professor of baroque violin at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen, Germany.

She has worked with Christopher Hogwood at the Academy of Ancient Music, with Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert, and toured the US in concert with James Galway. She has served as guest director of Arion Baroque Orchestra, Montreal, Tafelmusik, Toronto, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque, San Francisco, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, and Concerto Copenhagen.

Huggett continues as artistic director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra and of the Irish Baroque Orchestra and is guest director of the Seville Baroque Orchestra. She also founded the Ensemble Sonnerie and Hausmusik London as a chamber ensemble which concentrates on Romantic music.

She has won Gramophone awards for her recordings of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin (1997) and Biber's violin sonatas (2002).

Her unparalleled expertise in the musical and social history of the baroque era, coupled with her unique and compelling interpretation of baroque music, has made her an invaluable resource to students of the baroque violin, and she has given masterclasses in Banff, Dartington, Vicenza, Dublin, The Hague and Medellin.

In 2008 she was appointed director of the new graduate program in historical performance at the Juilliard School, New York. For more details see her official homepage: http://www.monicahuggett.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.